In the Chicago Sun-Times’ Tragedy of Errors Rick Telander throws more gems than Zambrano had all night.

If Carlos Zambrano were any more up and down, he’d be a push-up.

From Lou Pinella: “‘Probably been the two worst games we’ve played all year,” Piniella said. ”It wasn’t fun to watch, I’ll tell you that.”

I mean, this franchise hasn’t even sniffed a World Series jockstrap in 63 years. And that was a losing jockstrap, by the way.

I is well worth checking out. I know I’m not alone in thinking that the psychological hole they’re in is just too great to climb out of. But what story that would be.

Sadly I could not tell what was worse to watch McPalin NOT-debating Biden or the Cubbies meltdown…? Both were sadly sickening like watching a train wreck, only this one was pretty easy to walk away from.

McPalin’s camp of advisors have done both McCain and Palin a huge disservice by schooling them, drilling them in answering rote sound bytes while avoiding substance and content. You could see them falling off the cliff every time either one answered — rote answer sound byte (…..phew…..down the cliff…..) to improvised nonsequitur embellishment.

But I think I feel more badly for the Cubs. They can’t even look out their door at Russia, they freakin get what, Detroit?

I remember the little rice filled sacks Mom used to make for us. Tried to teach us to juggle. I gave up way too quickly. Or, my decision-making was just very efficient. I could tell juggling wasn’t going to be my undiscovered talent. In fact, forty some-odd years later, I’m still waiting for that talent to reveal itself. Pretty safe to say it won’t be in the sports arena!

Well, it’s good try. Remember the old saying, “the faster I go, the behinder I get?”

It’s kinda like that with fitness. At least if feels that way sometimes. Of course, we have things like age and evolution working against us…our bodies are perfectly evolved to help us store fat, ensuring the species’ continuation in times of famine.

If you’re a woman, you’re programmed to add a pound a year every year after 35. How do you like those odds?

Suckage if you ask me. What do I care about survival odds after I’m gone? But hey, no one consulted me.

What’s a girl to do?

Keep up the good fight! Get your heartrate up, get moving, even just a little. Take a walk after dinner. Little things like this will add up. And they help manage all the stress life doles out on a daily basis.

Eating well doesn’t have to add weight if you eat wisely. But that’s the subject of another blog…

Here’s a tiny deposit in the get fit bank: the FitBit. Drop this cool little gadget in your pocket and monitor your activity level for the day. Like a better looking pedometer, it measures motion and for you and downloads the data wirelessly. From there, you can input calories consumed that day and calculate your fitness.

dUNH dunh dunh dunh…God I want that ringtone. Can’t get it anywhere! You know the Monday Night Football theme…but first, some news from Fenway!

456

The number of consecutive sellout crowds in the MLB – set tonight at Fenway Park (and we did it with more seats to fill!) The streak goes back to May ’03. GO SOX!

111 x 12

Number of consecutive starts by a QB in the NFL. Set by Tom Brady (#12 or Uno Dos as I like to call him) before going down with season-ending ACL tear…yesterday..in their season opening game, in the first quarter.

41 – 14

Denver over Raiders, in the Oakland Coliseum. Ouch. Jemarcus Russell played okay for the most part. And at least they got on the board before the game ended.

At just about every down they were simply outplayed. It’s not like they’ve got no talent but when the coaching staff are in disarray and not on happy terms with Mr. Davis, what can you expect?

I call it a ROYAL smack down..Broncos’ Rookie WR Eddie Royal had a nice debut in the NFL and Shanahan let it be known that he still uses his grudge against Mr. Davis as motivation.

3 – 0

Red Sox over Tampa Bay, which was only made sweeter by the Yanks’ defeat 12-1 at the hands of the Angels. 1 ugly game and ugly scuffle.

Didn’t he, um have a little playing time with a certain wide receiver we like to call Ocho Uno?

I’m hanging on to the teensiest bit of hope that we’ll wake up tomorrow and this will have been a bad dream.

I keep seeing the image and thinking of when Joe Theisman was injured and they kept running that clip over and over.

Could be that it’s not Brady’s ACL that tore today. Maybe it was something else that caused him to scream in pain and roll on the grass clutching his knee.

It’s possible. Right now, Patriot’s Nation is in mourning. We only just let ourselves start to get swept into that optimistic place we’ve been before. The difference is that this time, when we look to the field it may well be the likes of Chris Simms looking back.

The fact that Cassel’s last start was in high school or possibly college (depending on whose news you listen to) does not inspire confidence.

Oh well. I guess there’s always baseball….let’s see if we can keep the Sox healthy enough to make a run for it this year.

“The Best of Us”

Directly from the Official Site of the Olympics:
The Best of Us Campaign: the objective of the IOC’s 2007/8 promotional campaign is to communicate the key Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect to a global youth audience.
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